These Vintage Ads Would Instantly Be Banned Today

Excuse Me?

Listen, if there were vitamins that afforded people the ability to become cuter and get more work done, they would be flying off the shelves. Sadly, this is just regular, old sexism.

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The More You Know

  • Google's founders were willing to sell to Excite for less than $1 million in 1999, but Excite turned them down.
  • During your lifetime, you will spend around seventy-nine days brushing your teeth.
  • Commercial flights were allowed to fly any course to their destination and would often detour over points of interest. This ended in 1956 when two planes crashed mid-flight over the Grand Canyon.
  • Shakespeare is easier to understand, makes more sense, and is punnier when it's recited in its original pronunciation instead of a modern English accent.
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